Lena Younger

Lena Younger was a resident of Chicago, Illinois during the 1950s.

Biography
Lena Younger was born in the American South, and she married Walter Younger Sr. and moved to Chicago, Illinois during the Great Migration; there, they had two children: Walter Lee and Beneatha. She was a devoutly religious woman, and she was satisfied and proud of her and her husband's progress, not worrying about her economic status. She lived with her son, daughter, her daughter-in-law Ruth, and her grandson Travis Younger, and she was the matriarch of the family. In 1959, she criticized her son for his hostile attitude towards his wife, for his goal of assimilating into white culture, and for his pursuit of money. Ultimately, she convinced him to resist being bought out by Karl Lindner, as she said that money was something that someone should work for, but not something that they should take it if it was a person's way of telling them they weren't fit to walk the same earth as they.